very nice analogy. I’m stealing it.
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chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 3 months ago
“Before” the Big Bang is nonsense. It’s equivalent to saying “head north from the North Pole.”
kureta@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
kemsat@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I still think that means I have to up towards Polaris.
nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
It’s not so much that we know there was nothing before it, but that we can’t figure out what was before it.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No, in our current best-supported model of the universe (Lambda-CDM) the concept of “before” the Big Bang is meaningless. It is the apex of the spacetime “bell” from which everything emerged.
orbitz@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Seems like a distinction without a difference, I sort of assumed the OP meant that is all I mean. We don’t know anything before the beginning after all. Like you said.